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Biodiversity hotspots support their diverse ecosystems on just 2.4% of the planet's surface, [55] but the area defined as hotspots covers a much larger proportion of the land, at about 15.7% of the land surface area, where they have lost around 85% of their original habitat.
The Maputaland-Pondoland-Albany Hotspot (MPA) is a biodiversity hotspot, a biogeographic region with significant levels of biodiversity, in Southern Africa. It is situated near the south-eastern coast of Africa, occupying an area between the Great Escarpment and the Indian Ocean. [1] The area is named after Maputaland, Pondoland and Albany.
Knysna-Amatole montane forests – Ecoregion of the tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests biome in South Africa KwaZulu-Cape coastal forest mosaic – Subtropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregion of South Africa Pages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
Home to the greatest non-tropical concentration of higher plant species in the world, the region is the only hotspot that encompasses an entire floral kingdom, and holds five of South Africa's 12 endemic plant families and 160 endemic genera. Covering 78,555 km 2, Cape Floristic Region hotspot is located entirely within the borders of South Africa.
The Gouritz Cluster Biosphere Reserve is located in the Western Cape of South Africa. It is the 7th and largest of South Africa’s biosphere reserves; [1] divided into four connected sectors ranging from sea level to 2,240 metres. The area is the only place in the world where three recognised biodiversity hotspots converge (Fynbos, Succulent ...
The protected areas of South Africa include national parks and marine protected areas managed by the national government, public nature reserves managed by provincial and local governments, and private nature reserves managed by private landowners.
A-Z of Areas of Biodiversity Importance: Biodiversity Hotspots; Conservation International's Biodiversity Hotspots project; African Wild Dog Conservancy's Biodiversity Hotspots Project; Biodiversity hotspots in India; New biodiversity maps color-coded to show hotspots; Shapefile of the Biodiversity Hotspots (v2016.1)
The Magaliesberg Biosphere Reserve is located in South Africa between the cities of Pretoria and Johannesburg to the east and Rustenburg to the west. The reserve lies at the interface of two great African biomes — the Central Grassland Plateaux and the sub-Saharan savannah — and the remnants of a third biome, the Afro‐montane forest.